Besoins Informationnels dans les Démarches Urbaines: Fragmentation, Complexité et Stratégies d’Acteurs

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smail Khainnar
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Urban Project

Dans une démarche du projet urbain, la multiplicité d’acteurs, la nature complexe de l’objet urbain, les temporalités générées par la démarche, constituent autant d’éléments qui complexifient le déroulement et l’issue de la démarche. L’objet de cette étude est d’identifier les besoins informationnels qui servent à faire avancer le travail des acteurs impliqués. In an urban project approach, the multiplicity of actors, the complex nature of the urban object, the temporalities generated by this approach, constitute as many elements complexifying the course and the success of this approach. The object of this study is to identify the information needs which are used to enhance the work of the implied actors.

scholarly journals The complex nature of research dissemination practices among public health faculty researchers

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosie Hanneke ◽  
Jeanne M. Link
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
Multiple Audiences ◽  
The Impact

Objective: This study explores the variety of information formats used and audiences targeted by public health faculty in the process of disseminating research.Methods: The authors conducted semi-structured interviews with twelve faculty members in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, asking them about their research practices, habits, and preferences.Results: Faculty scholars disseminate their research findings in a variety of formats intended for multiple audiences, including not only their peers in academia, but also public health practitioners, policymakers, government and other agencies, and community partners.Conclusion: Librarians who serve public health faculty should bear in mind the diversity of faculty’s information needs when designing and improving library services and resources, particularly those related to research dissemination and knowledge translation. Promising areas for growth in health sciences libraries include supporting data visualization, measuring the impact of non-scholarly publications, and promoting institutional repositories for dissemination of research.

The Experience of the Family Caregivers’ Role: A Qualitative Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Lane ◽  
Hugh McKenna ◽  
Assumpta Ryan ◽  
Paul Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Impact

In Ireland, there is a dearth of research exploring the perceived health and social care needs and experiences of family caregivers of older people. In response, this research study was conducted to explore the profile, role and needs of family caregivers as a means of understanding their experience of caring. The study also set out to identify coping strategies employed by caregivers and explore positive aspects of the caring relationship in relation to quality of life, information needs, day care and respite care, transport and emotional support. A multimethod approach used interviews, focus groups and postal questionnaires. In the main study a pretested questionnaire, comprising closed and open questions was used with a stratified, systematically randomized sample of caregivers in urban and rural home care settings, of which 52% of respondents to the questionnaire volunteered to partake in in-depth interviews. This article per deals predominantly with the findings arising from 10 in-depth qualitative interviews. The data yielded a rich and meaningful picture of the caregiving experience, profiling the complex nature of this diverse and multifaceted role. Findings showed that three main categories emanated from the data: the caring role-context and attitudes, the impact of caring and the need to support the carers’ role. The need to develop continually an understanding of the effectiveness of specific health and social care interventions was also of paramount importance. The anticipated continuing demand for family care means that caregivers’ needs and perspectives need to be integrated into future service planning and decision-making processes, in partnership with statutory and voluntary bodies. While this was the first study of its type in Ireland, the issues raised reflect the findings of other published studies and have important lessons for family carers and health care practitioners generally.

Assessing Transit-Oriented Development Implementation in Canadian Cities: An Urban Project Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Paulhiac Scherrer
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
Local Nature ◽  
Incremental Process

This article presents a new theoretical approach for assessing the implementation process of transit-oriented development (TOD). Through a conceptual framework, based on the notion of the urban project as an instrument of public policy, it highlights two distinct processes at work in the implementation of every TOD project: territorialization and differentiation. The first suggests that there are necessarily discrepancies between metropolitan planning strategies and the very local nature of the TOD projects. The second suggests that implementing a TOD project is an incremental process rooted in local policy conditions that must be factored in at every phase of the implementation process.

The Strategic Urban Project Approach for Informal Settlement Upgrading in Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia: Vision, Action and Partnership

2016 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650017
Author(s):  
Yanliu LIN
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Improvement Programme ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Urban Project

The strategic urban project (SUP) approach has become an important mode of urban renewal in both developed and developing contexts. In the last few decades, the application of this approach has been extended from flagship projects at key locations in Western countries, to informal settlement upgrading in developing countries. However, there is a lack of a clear conceptual framework for meaningful understanding of the achievements and limitations of SUPs in the context of informal settlement upgrading. Our understanding of how the SUP approach deals with the issues of informal settlements is limited. This paper fills the research gap by developing such a framework and applying it to compare three representative cases, namely the Favela–Bairro Programme in Rio de Janeiro, the Social Urbanism Strategy in Medellin, and the Kampung Improvement Programme (KIP) in Surabaya.

Three-Dimensional reconstruction of isolated centrosomes by automated electron tomography

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
M.B. Braunfeld ◽  
M. Moritz ◽  
B.M. Alberts ◽  
J.W. Sedat ◽  
D.A. Agard
Keyword(s):  
Electron Tomography ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Animal Cells ◽  
Microtubule Organizing Center ◽  
Nucleation Sites ◽  
Dimensional Reconstruction ◽  
Organizing Center ◽  
Resolution Model

In animal cells, the centrosome functions as the primary microtubule organizing center (MTOC). As such the centrosome plays a vital role in determining a cell's shape, migration, and perhaps most importantly, its division. Despite the obvious importance of this organelle little is known about centrosomal regulation, duplication, or how it nucleates microtubules. Furthermore, no high resolution model for centrosomal structure exists.We have used automated electron tomography, and reconstruction techniques in an attempt to better understand the complex nature of the centrosome. Additionally we hope to identify nucleation sites for microtubule growth.Centrosomes were isolated from early Drosophila embryos. Briefly, after large organelles and debris from homogenized embryos were pelleted, the resulting supernatant was separated on a sucrose velocity gradient. Fractions were collected and assayed for centrosome-mediated microtubule -nucleating activity by incubating with fluorescently-labeled tubulin subunits. The resulting microtubule asters were then spun onto coverslips and viewed by fluorescence microscopy.

Anticipating Information Needs: Adaptive Display in Dynamic Environments

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley C. Love ◽  
Matt Jones ◽  
Marc Tomlinson ◽  
Michael Howe
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Dynamic Environments

The Center for International Biomedical Communications Research

1966 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 142-146
Author(s):  
A. Kent ◽  
P. J. Vinken
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
English Language ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Excerpta Medica Foundation

A joint center has been established by the University of Pittsburgh and the Excerpta Medica Foundation. The basic objective of the Center is to seek ways in which the health sciences community may achieve increasingly convenient and economical access to scientific findings. The research center will make use of facilities and resources of both participating institutions. Cooperating from the University of Pittsburgh will be the School of Medicine, the Computation and Data Processing Center, and the Knowledge Availability Systems (KAS) Center. The KAS Center is an interdisciplinary organization engaging in research, operations, and teaching in the information sciences.Excerpta Medica Foundation, which is the largest international medical abstracting service in the world, with offices in Amsterdam, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Buenos Aires, will draw on its permanent medical staff of 54 specialists in charge of the 35 abstracting journals and other reference works prepared and published by the Foundation, the 700 eminent clinicians and researchers represented on its International Editorial Boards, and the 6,000 physicians who participate in its abstracting programs throughout the world. Excerpta Medica will also make available to the Center its long experience in the field, as well as its extensive resources of medical information accumulated during the Foundation’s twenty years of existence. These consist of over 1,300,000 English-language _abstract of the world’s biomedical literature, indexes to its abstracting journals, and the microfilm library in which complete original texts of all the 3,000 primary biomedical journals, monitored by Excerpta Medica in Amsterdam are stored since 1960.The objectives of the program of the combined Center include: (1) establishing a firm base of user relevance data; (2) developing improved vocabulary control mechanisms; (3) developing means of determining confidence limits of vocabulary control mechanisms in terms of user relevance data; 4. developing and field testing of new or improved media for providing medical literature to users; 5. developing methods for determining the relationship between learning and relevance in medical information storage and retrieval systems’; and (6) exploring automatic methods for retrospective searching of the specialized indexes of Excerpta Medica.The priority projects to be undertaken by the Center are (1) the investigation of the information needs of medical scientists, and (2) the development of a highly detailed Master List of Biomedical Indexing Terms. Excerpta Medica has already been at work on the latter project for several years.

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